Dr. Tuminez currently serves as regional director for corporate, external and legal affairs in Southeast Asia for Microsoft Corporation. She is the former dean of research and assistant dean of executive education for the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

According to a published report, President Stephens claims she was blackmailed by a former employee who sent the board and Utah state legislators a “deceptively-edited audio recording” that implied the president was involved in discriminatory behavior.

Earlier this year, students at Brigham Young University alleged that students who were sexually assaulted but were also in violation of the university’s honor code prohibitions on drug or alcohol use or pre-marital sex did not report the sexual assault due to the expected repercussions to their status as students.

A woman who says she was raped off campus, was notified by university officials that she was under investigation for potential honor code violations. The university prohibits students from premarital sex and the use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco.

The new deans are LaTanya Buck at Princeton University, Sarah S. Rugh at Brigham Young University, Laurie Elish-Piper at Northern Illinois University, Adrienne C. Webber at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Gennifer Weisenfeld at Duke University, and Daveen Litwin at Dartmouth College.

Lisa Bickmore, an associate professor of English at Salt Lake Community College in Utah, has won the first prize of $10,000 in the Ballymaloe International Poetry Contest sponsored by an Irish literary magazine. She has been on the faculty at SLCC since 1992.

In surveys, pregnant and postpartum women consistently rated their memories and cognitive skills lower than women who did not give birth. But cognitive tests during pregnancy and after giving birth show no negative cognitive impact from childbirth.

The University of Mississippi’s Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies is the first institution of higher education in the state to offer a sexuality emphasis in a gender studies minor program. The Isom Center is named after the university’s first woman faculty member.

A new study by researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, finds that women who are elected to school board positions across the United States are less likely than their male counterparts to speak during public sessions.

Sociology students at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, conducted a study of men and women who majored in fields where the majority of students are of the opposite gender. Men tended to amplify their ambitions and women often had a strong role model in a STEM field.

A new study by researchers at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, finds that the parenting skills, and not something in the breast milk, explains a big part of the difference on why breastfed babies perform better once they get to school.

Delynne Peay joined the faculty at Brigham Young University in 1974 and at the time of her death was the university’s longest serving faculty member. She taught classes in tap dancing, folk dancing, and the world of dance.

A study of rape cases in Salt Lake County, Utah, found that two thirds of the cases were never presented to the district attorney for review and only 6 percent of all rape cases resulted in convictions or guilty pleas by offenders.

Linda Norman was named dean of the School of Nursing at Vanderbilt University. Bridget Terry Long is the new academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Mary Ann Prater was named dean of education at Brigham Young University.

A new study by researchers at Brigham Young University and the University of Miami has found that gender differences in the results of mathematical competitions evaporate after the first round of the competitions.